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Bayhaqi 17741 — The beginning of permission to fight

أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ قَاسِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ السَّيَّارِيُّ بِمَرْوَ، ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُوسَى بْنِ حَاتِمٍ الْبَاشَانِيُّ، ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ، ثنا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ عَوْفٍ، وَأَصْحَابًا لَهُ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُمْ، أَتَوَا النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالُوا: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ كُنَّا فِي عِزٍّ وَنَحْنُ مُشْرِكُونَ فَلَمَّا آمَنَّا صِرْنَا أَذِلَّةً. فَقَالَ: " إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ بِالْعَفْوِ فَلَا تُقَاتِلُوا الْقَوْمَ ". فَلَمَّا حَوَّلَهُ اللهُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ أَمَرَهُ بِالْقِتَالِ فَكَفُّوا، فَأَنْزَلَ اللهُ: {أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ قِيلَ لَهُمْ كُفُّوا أَيْدِيَكُمْ وَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَآتُوا الزَّكَاةَ فَلَمَّا كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقِتَالُ إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِنْهُمْ يَخْشَوْنَ النَّاسَ} [النساء: ٧٧].
Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) and his companions came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Prophet of Allah! When we were polytheists we were greatly honoured, and when we accepted Islam we became humiliated." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have been commanded to forgive and forbidden to fight." Then when he (peace and blessings be upon him) moved to Madinah, Allah Almighty commanded him to fight. When the command to fight came, these people held back from fighting, and at that time Allah Almighty revealed this verse: "Have you (peace and blessings be upon him) not seen those to whom it was said: 'Restrain your hands (from fighting for now), establish the prayer and give the zakah'? Then when fighting was prescribed for them, behold, a group of them began to fear the people" [Surah al-Nisa': 77].
Hadith Reference السنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السير / 17741
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